David Mendez

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Claudia: "The average Hispanic family has 2.4 kids." Not sure where that figure comes from -- though 2.4 is the Hispanic woman's Total Fertility Rate (which, as Pew explains, is the number of children the average woman is predicted to have in her lifetime) according to a 2012 study. Of that figure, do you know if the "average Hispanic family" is one that has been Americanized, or is it (as you imply) strictly in regards to undocumented migrants?

As to why 90 percent of Nevada's non-English-speaking migrants failed the test the first time, it's because many didn't understand that there was to be a test in the first place -- they were unprepared, thinking that they were only going to fill out a form. Failure rates dropped closer to the average failure rate as weeks progressed. (By the by, the California DMV cited a 70 percent failure rate for first-timers on the Spanish-language test in that article, not the 90 percent that you cited.)

Further, are you suggesting that a person of Hispanic descent is less intelligent, simply by virtue of their race (as you seem to suggest with your "natural IQ" comment)? Because if that's your intent, I'm very interested in testing your hypothesis with you next time I visit the Old Pueblo.

David W: Mind citing a source on that? I don't necessarily distrust your numbers, as I've seen high immigration report numbers in recent months. But the only article I found for the month of September in trying to back your claim up is one from Breitbart, and I'm loathe to consider that source an unbiased authority on immigration numbers. Nothing from ICE either, for that matter.